I tried yesterday and today to get that damned car running. Where we got to was trying to start, engine cranking, but not turning over properly, and at least not running rough as can be as it did. I think that is progress, but it is not even trying to go, almost as if the timing was gone. It’s pretty bad. I don’t know how it could be the timing. The engine is meant to have a chain, so it is not a belt that has broken. I will double check that. I am getting to the end of my rope. I have missed too much work to come out ahead at all for next week’s pay. The situation is, I’ll say it, dire. It’s dire and I don’t know what to do. I need it to start, but it feels smother and yet farther than ever. I am at a total loss.
So, I put my photography website on the front burner. If I could do some work with that, I could make easily as much with one client a week on just shooting photos, as I took home from DoorDash in a week. You have to consider gas and car maintenance, after all. Give me two clients a week, and I am doing pretty well. Set me up with two and them buying curated art, and I could live alright. It’s not a lot. It is enough.
But what experience do I want to creat? I said the word “curated.” I meant it. I would like to come up with choice portraits of families in progress, or families just getting started, to fill their homes with beauty and memories that cannot possibly be created with AI. I am good with kids. I am a capable photographer. I love people, and I love to try to capture them in unique imagery that will generate conversation and happiness in a home for many years to come. It is not a job, but a purpose. I want to first consult with the co-conspirator or co-creaters. I want to know what they are looking for, and what space or need they are trying to fulfill. I want to know who will be in the images, and a little or a lot about them all. I want them to bring their personalities to the photography day event. Why should it not be like a wedding day? It is an event.
Then I will review and edit, and then present with choices for the final art being selected. From there, I will have the media made and then when it is all ready and together, framed or just printed if desired, I will personally deliver it, and hang it if they want. It is the co-creation of personalized art. That’s how I want it to be.
I just need an interested right fit to give me a call.
So, okay. Now, I am thinking of what on earth to do about the car tomorrow. I need to get it home somehow. I need to try once more to start it, then get it on the trailer and get it home. I need to give up DoorDashing entirely, or mostly, and do good work on the real work I desire to do.
Well, for now it is to be sleep. I have nothing left from myself on an entirely frustrating and disruptive day.